Why Does nobody own a 16v? I need help!

[judderi]

My 16v is cutting out then going again at high revs (inbetween 4 and 5 usually) as if i was running out of petrol. This is not good when trying to have a little race. although the backfires are pretty impressive. It doesent always do it. i cant be the only person to have this trouble. Please help somebody! i dont really know where to start. ignition? fuel? throttle?

ive got it booked in at my local vw garage to a diagnosis test. im not really expecting that to find anything though, maybee im just to sceptical :-/. Either that or im just Pi*?ed off at the guy for saying is it worth spending 40 quid on? Have you seen the car! its the best mk 2 conversion ever. Or just in the town anyway! ?

[stoat]

Try talking to the boys and girls on www.clubgti.com they might be able to help

[Kingy]

I got a mk3 16v a year ago, i have had a 2 or 3 incidents when there is sudden power loss for a split second, it's happened in third or forth gear between 3- 4k revs. It has'nt happened for about 6 months though, i thought it might get worse. I can't tell you what the problem is cos i dont know!? but if you find out, let me know. Maybe the conversion has exagerated the problem?

[judderi]

Whe hey another 16v does exist! I have so far changed the dizzy cap and rotor arm and there has been a noticable improvement but its still there. Next on my list is spark plugs cos im almost convinced the problem is to do with ignition. I had a chance on a long journey to toy with it and i found that it only did it inbetween 4,200 and 5,000 revs. The plugs are a good bet i think cos i recently hydraulic'ed the engine and the plugs have probably had water forced down the ceramic and electrode (which cant be good!) Anyway will let you know once i have tried it.

[brains]

sounds to be what i have ,
have changed plugs, leads new dist cap changed ignition coil with no results, its doing my tits in.
my car is into the garage again on wensday will get back to you with the results.

later.

[judderi]

I stripped all my throttle down and cleaned it and now the dam thing is idling to high and still doing the kangaroo hop. I am thinking about getting it rolling road tuned next pay day. will keep you posted if this solves it. i now have changed plugs cap and rotor arm.

[brains]

dropped car off last night,
mechanic thinks it might be cam shaft sensor,
some thing about when the cars under load its not sending a good enough signal to get the right spark, if this makes sense to anyone please comemt cos i dont have a scooby :-[ :-[

[judderi]

He might be right y know. Now i think of it my mate had a volvo with a similar problem and he changed all sorts at great expense and in the end it was a little crank sensor that cost about a tenner. Hmmmm so are you getting it done? If so let me know if it worked and how much it cost. Cheers

[brains]

garage just phoned,
?145 for cam shaft sensor
plus two hours labour.

oh well whats a flexible friend for anyway!!
:-/ :-/

[brains]

JUST BEEN TOLD WONT GET HER BACK TILL TOMORROW,
SO WILL TELL YOU MORE WHEN I GET HER BACK.